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ISBN:
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ISBN: 978-9-403638-33-1 (European Edition 2021) |
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Why does a couple's relationship
end? That is the first question the reader of this novel is
prompted to ask. It is the story of a couple tearing itself
apart discreetly, a couple transformed without knowing why. A
couple tested by time and habits. A woman comfortably set in the
routine of a life lived in tandem. A man who seeks to leave for
no apparent reason. Another who frequents virtual women. A third
man who hides behind the cabalistic, life-saving phrase
justifying his departure: "Marie, I don't love you any more."
War. Death. Their impact on a loving relationship.
This novel also takes up the notion
that women often go through the same ennui, the same situation,
the same emotions, and that men resemble each other regarding
their attitudes, their silence and their relationships to women.
For the heroine Tina, silence, as with indifference, kills by
degrees.
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CYNTHIA HAHN,
JOSEPHINE BAKER, EZZA AGHA MALAK, AND AIMÉE LABERGE |
EZZA AGHA MALAK AND
CYNTHIA HAHN |
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Salon du Livre/Festival de
la Francophonie
at the Alliance Française
of Chicago (USA)
with
EZZA AGHA MALAK (Lebanon)
CYNTHIA HAHN (USA)
JOSEPHINE BAKER (Canada)
JENNIFER SOLHEIM (USA)
and
AIMÉE LABERGE (France)
(Director of Programs, AF)
March, 2016 |
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JOSEPHINE BAKER, JENNIFER SOLHEIM, EZZA AGHA MALAK, AND CYNTHIA
HAHN |
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FRENCH ORIGINAL VERSION:
L'HOMME DE TOUS LES SILENCES.
ROMAN
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RECENT TITLES
BY EZZA AGHA MALAK WITH UNIVERSITY PRESS OF THE SOUTH |
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Anosmia. Nostalgia
for a Forbidden Sense
ISBN: 1-931948-89-5
University Press of the South, 2008
What Have You Done With Your Kids, DAD?
ISBN:
978-1-937030-29-2
University
Press of the South, 2013
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EZZA AGHA MALAK
(Lebanon), recipient of the French government distinction Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and prolific
francophone author of over thirty creative works including
novels, short story and poetry collections, is Professor Emerita
of the Université Libanaise and the Université Saint-Joseph
(Lebanon), where she taught French linguistics, stylistics,
language and literature, and directed doctoral research at the
University of Lebanon.
Ezza
Agha Malak
received her Doctorat d’Etat
ès Lettres et Sciences humaines from the University of Lyon II, France (1983), as
well as the Doctorat de 3ème cycle in French Linguistics and
Semiology from the same university (1977).
In 2001,
Ezza Agha Malak was awarded the Lebanese Parliamentary Commission's Ordre du Mérite.
Ezza
Agha Malak
speaks of literature as a kind of engagement and
of the French language as her outlet and existential need.
Her novels, in which she artfully utilizes suspense, vary in
their themes and messages. Tolerance, love, falling out of
love, problems of the couple, women's rights, macho society,
abusive childhood, corruption, war, etc. are recurrent
themes in her work which have been the subject of much
criticism (masters'
and doctoral theses) and some hundred articles gathered into
five collective studies and Acts of colloquia. Living
between her two "eldorados", France and Lebanon,
participating in the literary life of her two countries,
Ezza continues to pursue her career as a writer and French-speaking
lecturer across the world.
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CYNTHIA T. HAHN
Cynthia T. Hahn, a Professor
of French at Lake Forest College, Illinois,
received a
Ph.D.
in Francophone
Literature from the
University of Illinois at Urbana, USA. She has been teaching
French and francophone literatures and cultures since 1990.
She has translated eight novels into English by Algerian and
Lebanese writers Noureddine Aba, Evelyne Accad and Ezza Agha
Malak. She is the acclaimed author of two volumes of poetry:
Outside-In-Sideout (Finishing Line Press, 2010); and
Co-ïncidences (alfAbarre, 2014), a bilingual,
collaborative volume with Parisian artist Monique Loubet.
Her
translation from French of Dr. Ezza Agha Malak's book,
Anosmia. Nostalgia
for a Forbidden Sense, was published by
University Press of the South in 2008. Her
translation from French of Dr. Ezza Agha Malak's book,
What Have You Done With Your Kids,
DAD? was published by
University Press of the South in 2013.
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